Senior Sustainability & Compliance Officer (Vattenfall AB)

Vattenfall AB is looking for a Senior Sustainability and Compliance Officer with placement in Stockholm (Solna), Berlin, Amsterdam or Hamburg.
The function is placed within the Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM) Team of SF Sustainability consisting of 2 senior sustainability advisors, 3 temporary strategy analysts, the manager and the advertised positions (this one and 2 junior positions).
The SSCM team is expanding its responsibilities and will become a competence center performing (enhanced) due diligence on behalf of other units as part of the Vattenfall-wide counterparty screening process. The units that primarily need screening support as well as general support in the integration of sustainability are Staff Function (SF) Procurement (Goods & Services) and the Fuel sourcing units Business Area (BA) Markets, BA Heat and Business Unit Nuclear Fuel, ”,as well as SF Mergers & Acquisition and BA Customers & Solutions. In the counterparty screening process counterparties are scrutinized with regard to risk for money laundering, terrorism financing, lacking social and environmental responsibility etc. The team is also responsible for compliance with regulations and continuous improvement of the processes and ways or working, which includes tasks such as trainings, controls and the drafting of internal instructions.


Tasks & Responsibilities:
• Conduct Due Diligence and Enhanced Due Diligence by reviewing and approving counterparties, both at onboarding of the counterparties and as part of the ongoing monitoring of existing counterparties. Focus is administration (documentation, reporting and coordination) and continuous improvement of the processes and ways or working. The Officer is providing recommendations to the buyers, business managers and in more challenging cases to one of the decision boards like Procurement Sustainability Board and Responsible Sourcing Board
• Support with the implementation of the newly bought screening tool within the SSCM team and towards other units that will be using the screening tool, and be the administrative contact for the tool and keep the overview of performed enhanced due diligence work
• Support with creation of data management rules applicable to all data owners providing data into the tool
• Support with the creation and roll-out of training materials to units that need screening support
• Support in the development and creation of local guidelines e.g. for Goods & Services and Mergers & Acquisition based on the overarching Vattenfall Manage Counterparty Screening instruction
• Participate in activities related to the Sustainable Supply Chain Roadmap and other activities with the Sustainability team aimed at further develop and integrate sustainability into Vattenfall’s processes and activities


Requirements:
• A university degree in MBA, economics or law school
• 5-10 years’ compliance experience reviewing counterparties (suppliers/customers) is a must
• Knowledge of EU, UN, US, UK sanction processes and applicability is a strong merit
• Strong interest in sustainability (environmental, social and governance) topics and a willingness to develop in that area is highly valued
• A generally good understanding of how large companies operate is needed to drive the administrative processes, handle resistance and ‘bureaucracy’ aspects
• Excellent English skills are required
• Expertise in export regulations is a merit
• Change management experience is desirable


About you:
• Self-driving and self-motivated with a sense of responsibility and a high degree of confidentiality
• Enduring attention to details and analytical abilities
• Sense for organizational and administrational processes
• Comfortable/confident to interact also with various managers across the organization and overcome resistance (which others can show towards administrational processes)
• Pedagogic communicator


Location: Stockholm (Solna office), Berlin, Amsterdam or Hamburg
For more information about the posted job, please contact Ilka Baert, +46 70 6163791, or recruiter Teri-Anne Brink teri-anne.brink@vattenfall.com
Union representatives:
Trade union representatives in Sweden are Shahriar Badiei (Akademikerna), Anders Bohlin (Unionen), Christer Gustafsson (Ledarna), Juha Siipilehto (Seko). To get in contact with the representative, please call Vattenfall’s switchboard +46 (8) 739 50 00


We welcome your application including CV and cover letter no later than 24th of June 2022


Our organization:
At Vattenfall you can free your superpowers! We are one of the European market leaders in the generation of renewable energy and are primarily active in Scandinavia, Germany, Denmark, UK and the Netherlands. We take our responsibility seriously and together we are making the change towards fossil freedom. Our goal is to enable a fossil-free living within one generation. We are a dynamic company with an international focus and a social face at the heart of society. Diversity and inclusion is in everything we do,
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